[NicoR44]

Hey Hervé,
yummy, I love cepes, they are cepes are they

Btw, Max, your photo's are superb!! really supurb!

[Hervé]

yep, this is a special sort of cèpes... cèpes Bai.. very good..

we found a kilo ! in supermarket it was 8 euros for 200 g. ! he he

[NicoR44]

Cool, here in the Netherlands we call it "Eekhoornjes brood" in English "squirrel bread"

I always use them to make a really nice creamy sauce, "Sauce aux cèpes" binded with butter.

[Hervé]

very beautiful "Cèpe de Bordeaux" you have here... it can also be used in the Risotto al funghi... I think these mushrooms are called Porcinni in Italian...

Question... does the squirrel eats those..? I know these damn wild pigs love them..

Sauce aux cèpes sound delicious...

do you find them easy in Holland...? I mean in the forest..

[NicoR44]

Yes squirrel do eat them, we have a lot of different mushrooms here in the Netherlands, now is the perfect time to find them.
I usually look for Big Bovists: they can grow to about 40cm in diameter and are really firm and taste like steak when prepared.

they grow in the field between the cows

[Hervé]

wow never seen a mushroom eatable that big.. ! that one's so big...

steak taste is funny... hehe... do they really ... I guess because of the cows...

big bovists... phewww... big.. the cool thin is that you just need one...

[Tim Ellis]

Nico we used to get those in our horse fields. 45cm was the biggest we found.

Tim.

[Maximus3D]

Lud: Hehe good start on the 50+ coming pages

Hervé: Ahh! yummy mushrooms you photographed i like the angle you used for your 2nd and 3rd shots, good one's! please tell me you cooked them and had them for dinner

Nico: Good one! with nice proportions. and ofcourse it looks tasty

Nico again: that's one bigass mushroom, that type grows around here too but they get much smaller, the size of a golfball, atleast here in the north where i live.

A few tests/experiments and silly shots i snapped tonight of candy and Pringles and then a small transparent plasticheart (no it's not my real heart)











/ Max

[John Layne]

Max

Love the lighting especially on the stones, the potato chip and the mushrooms you've done in the past.

Care to share an image of your lighting set up?

[Hervé]

wow wow Max... you master Photography each time a little more... pretty amazing poatoe ships.... hehe.. yes we ate them all except one with a worm inside... eerk...

[Maximus3D]

John: Thank you but those stones are infact candy, but that's not easy to see as they look like stones. I made a rough example that shows the basic setup i use for these type of macroshots, although the lightsource position, angle and distance from the subject varies depending on what i'm gonna shoot. But this is the basics of the setup.

The setup uses a bunch of standard plain white copypaper bent between the upper and lower parts of my desk to get a nice smooth bent transition where the scene sorta fades off in the background in a nice way. And the lightsource is my desklamp, a common compact flourescent lamp which provides a slight yellowish tone which can often be seen in my macro's.

In this example below i used a small stone just to demonstrate how it's done, as you can see there's really no magic to it. Pretty much straight down setup, adjust the lamp, adjust the camera, point and shoot! that's all..





And the result with this setup above can be seen below



What should be said is that i ofcourse run the photos through Photoshop to crop them, coloradjust and minor sharpening if necessary like most other photographers do. As long as you have a good enough looking raw material to work with then it's all good. Btw, everything is photographed in raw format to aid postwork in PS.

Hervé: Thank you sir but hehe i'm hardly a "master" at this, i know there are real professional photographers on this forum and they can shoot much much better than this. I just do it for fun and practise now, it helps when you do 3d later on as you learn to see surface structure, details, light behaviour, shadowplay and much more..
Hehe, a worm inside you shoulda eaten that, it's nutrition and perhaps a bit salty which is good for you, but not for the worm..

/ Max

[Hervé]

ok let's cut the apple in half... remove the "much much".. sure with 5 tons of equipment, people can be better... but with just a simple office lamp... huh..

The worm.. was looking a bit sick.. (maybe from the travel.. dunno), I remember to have lay it down gently on a mini paper towel... but when he started to use the phone calling his swedish friends to start a wild party at my home.. I said stop there boy..

[ivox3]

A walk in the woods around 5pm Friday 20th yielded this, ...

A small pond, ... looking down. I know it looks layered, ..it's not.

[glebe digital]

Chris, that's a really nice shot. Very disorientating [in a cool way!]

Today we've had a beautiful windless October day [a rare thing]

Mid-morning in the Glebe:


And this is the Ring of Brodger early afternoon.

[glypticmax]

Great pics guys.
I really enjoy this thread.
Its like looking through windows all over the world.
When I need to take a visual deep breathe I drop by here and am never disappointed.